Heisuke Yanagawa

Heisuke Yanagawa (2 October 1879-22 January 1945) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War, Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II.

Biography
Heisuke Yanagawa was born on 2 October 1879 in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, and he served in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War before graduating from the Army War College in 1912. Yanagawa served in China as a military attache before attending the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and he was also a delegate to the League of Nations from Japan. Yanagawa became involved in the Kodoha faction of Japanese politics with Sadao Araki, Jinzaburo Masaki, and Hideyoshi Obata, and he served as Vice-Minister of War from 1932 to 1934. From 1935 to 1936, he commanded the army on Taiwan, and he led the Japanese Tenth Army in China from 1937 to 1938, and he was unwillingly involved in the Rape of Nanking. In 1938, he retired from military service, and he died in 1945.